University of Oklahoma is a public institution that was founded in 1890. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 22,819, its setting is city, and the campus size is 4,138 acres. It utilizes a semester-based academic calendar. University of Oklahoma's ranking in the 2019 edition of Best Colleges is National Universities, 124. Attracting top students from across the nation and more than 120 countries around the world, OU provides a major university experience in a private college atmosphere. For the third time in four years, OU has enrolled more freshman National Merit Scholars than any other institution in the country - the only public university ever to have done so. The current student body is both the largest and most highly ranked academically in the history of public institutions in Oklahoma. In 2012, OU added its 29th Rhodes Scholar, more than all but 7 public universities in America. OU offers Sooner Jump Start, a pathway program for first-year international students. The number of endowed faculty positions has grown from fewer than 100 in 1994 to more than 550 today. In honor of OUs 125th anniversary, the University launched a $500 million private fundraising campaign, of which the largest component raised over $100 million to provide scholarships and fellowships. In 2011, OU achieved the Carnegie Foundation's highest tier of research activity classification, making it the first time a public institution in Oklahoma has received this outstanding recognition. The Association of University Research Parks recently named OU's Research Campus the top research campus in the United States. Since 1994, more than $3 billion in private funds have been raised for facility construction, scholarships, and innovative programs - including a new school of biomedical engineering on the Norman main campus. OU is the only Big 12 university to be selected as having one of America's 25 most beautiful campuses.

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